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Scoring a podcast: what's the best tool?
I got into iOS recording early, before Audiobus. I stopped recording a few years ago to focus on playing guitar better, with the intention of coming back when my chops had improved. But the pandemic has altered my plans. I'm a college English professor and it's impossible for me to conduct large lectures in person, so I'm making podcasts.
What do you think is the best tool? My goal is to record the vocals and then add music and sound effects, like the podcast Radio Lab. My immediate thought was Ferrite, which seems good at chopping things up and editing them, but not so good at adding while the initial track is playing. What I'd like to do is record the vocal track, then return to the beginning, set it playing, open another track for recording, and record music while the vocal track is playing. (Picture Vangelis working, but without his talent.) Ferrite doesn't seem to allow this. Am I missing something?
I have several DAWs on my iPad Air 1: Cubasis, MultiTrack DAW, Hokusai, Auria, and Auria Pro. I'm worried, though, that they will choke on long recordings. (My podcasts will range from 30-45 minutes.)
What is the best tool for this purpose?
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Set Auria to recording while you watch a tv show. You will know it it can handle one hour recording.
I'm also a university lecturer, too. I record lectures in short clips (one or two PowerPoint slides then cut), then put it all together in LumaFusion. I also do some podcasts without PowerPoint, so stand in front of my home cinema projector screen, which is white, then use ChromaKey in LumaFusion to add graphics in the background, etc. LumaFusion is the way to go, for sure, in my view - unless, as you indicate, you want it audio-only. Maybe Cubasis will work nicely for that? I saw a video on YT of someone just using Garage and that worked well. Btw, LumaFusion also has a subscription called Storyblocks, which gives you music, sound effects, and various graphics to use in your productions. I used that for a while but because I teach International Politics the music and graphics were totally inappropriate for my purposes. But i still use LumaFusion all the time - it's fantastic.
@dokwok2 I frequently used Multitrack-DAW for the recording of 30-45min guitar/vocal sessions (2 tracks, 24bit), never experienced chokes of any kind.
To mark a section in the middle and record another track (or more) should work without hassle. Imho this scenario is a particular strength of MTD.
Thank you, @audio_DT. If I ever attempt video, I will look at LumaFusion.
And thank you, @Telefunky. I did some preliminary testing with MTD this morning. This app has gotten better since I bought it in 2011. (Just looked at my iTunes receipt: purchased NanoStudio 1 the same day.)
If you're going to stick with the iPad 1 then it's wise to stick with an app from that era for stability.
If the audio quality if acceptable don't forget the capability of the "voice" app and then import into
a DAW for post production. Sometimes less is more for "live" work. I'd be concerned with good mic's
even more than software. My iPad 1 uses that damn "harmonica" connector that kept falling out.
Will you use the internal mic or the headphone jack or something that supports that connector type?
Here's my signal chain: Shure SM58 --> mixer --> Focusrite interface --> lightning connector -- iPad Air 1. When I set things up a few years ago, I was primarily recording synths. This morning I tested Ferrite and MT DAW with the SM58. It seemed boomy at first, but then I noticed that the bass knob on that channel of the mixer was turned up to its maximum. That was easily fixed. The SM58 requires more gain than I would like, but I got a sound I was happy with pretty quickly. It's much easier to get close to the mic when you don't have a guitar hanging from your shoulders.
I've also contemplated getting a lapel mic that would plug directly into the iPad, but I suspect the audio quality from the SM58 will be superior.
SM58's are wonderful mics. They have been a vocal standard for over 50 years and still cost less than $100 new. You're in good shape.
Now I'm curious to see what you end up with for precise audio editing on an iPad 1. Don't forget to check
in the apps store for your purchase history. You can still download apps that are gone because you paid for them. There maybe some audio editing tools you bought and never really used or discarded. I have an iPad 1 loaded with NanoStudio and Beatmaker 1 along with SampleTank, iGrand, iLektric for iPad and Amp One. I almost gifted it to a talented teenager as a first iPad.
Cubasis on my Air 1 worked fine for this.
Did you have any issues with length, @AudioGus ? E.g., did Cubasis slow down or crash when you got up to 30 minutes or thereabouts?
I did some pretty long jams with the air1 in Cubasis back in the day. Around an hour, half dozen tracks or so. I think it all streams well off of the internal storage so length really shouldn't matter.
Thank you, @AudioGus.
Keep an eye on "free storage". How much ram did you buy and is it full up?
Yeah, that could become an issue. My Air 1 has about 15 gb free out of its original 64.
Your good to go. You can record and edit a lot of audio with 15GB. Video adds up but
audio won't be an issue mixing in music and sound effects.